February 12, 2026
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Category: Compensation

CWC Updates California Pay Data Reporting Guide For 2025 Reporting Season

CWC has updated its California Pay Data Reporting Guide. The updated guide covers the rules for filing the 2025 report that is due May 13, 2026. It also provides tips for a company to use when pulling the required data. Three data fields have been added for the 2025 reporting cycle: “Employment Type” — full-time, part-time, or intermittent; “Exemption Status” —...
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January 13, 2026
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Category: Compensation

Seventh Circuit Ruling Underscores Importance Of Timely Pay Decision Documentation

Contemporaneous documentation of the reasons for pay decisions can help employers facing discrimination claims under the Equal Pay Act and Title VII, a recent federal court decision reinforces. Lane v. Stericycle involved claims that an employer paid women that it promoted into a new position less than the men it similarly promoted. Reversing summary judgment for the employer, the Seventh Circuit...
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July 23, 2025
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Category: Compensation

New CWC Resource Covers International Pay Transparency and Reporting

CWC has prepared a resource explaining international pay transparency requirements to help members prepare for the 2026 EU Pay Transparency Directive deadline. This resource will help CWC members navigate the various requirements in countries where they have an employment presence. It will detail pay gap reporting and job pay transparency requirements, thresholds to application, and important reporting dates. Members of...
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September 25, 2024
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Category: Compensation

What CWC Members Need To Know About the EU Pay Transparency Directive

CWC members that have workers in any of the 27 European Union countries will have to comply with extensive pay transparency and reporting requirements beginning in 2026. Employers’ obligations under Directive 2023/970 (the Pay Transparency Directive) depend on the number of workers they have in the EU and the member states in which they work. For any employer with at...
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September 10, 2024
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Category: Agency Enforcement

OFCCP Agrees to First Nationwide ERCA Since Beginning of Biden Administration

The Labor Department’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) has signed an Early Resolution Conciliation Agreement (ERCA) with State Street Corporation that includes an audit moratorium on the contractor’s establishments nationwide. Although ERCAs granting a multi-year moratorium on establishment audits were common during the previous administration, this is the first ERCA of which we are aware during the Biden...
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September 10, 2024
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Category: Compensation

Private Right of Action Fuels Pay Transparency Litigation in Washington State

Washington state’s pay transparency law has generated a lot of litigation against employers since it took effect in 2023. Unlike most other state pay transparency laws, Washington’s Equal Pay and Opportunities Act (EPOA) contains a private right of action that permits employees and job applicants to sue employers for alleged infractions. Based on the impact of the controversial Washington law...
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August 20, 2024
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Category: Compensation

Massachusetts Latest State To Require Pay Ranges in Job Postings

Massachusetts has become the latest state to require covered employers to post salary ranges in their job listings. H.4890, signed into law by Governor Healey on July 31, 2024, will require employers with 25 or more employees in Massachusetts to disclose pay ranges in job postings and provide a pay range to employees to whom they offer a transfer or...
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June 27, 2024
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Category: Compliance Reporting and Recordkeeping

New Illinois Pay Reporting Recertification Notices Mistakenly Request Data From Wrong Year

The Illinois Department of Labor (IDOL) is issuing notices to remind employers that they must obtain a new Equal Pay Registration Certificate (EPRC) in 2024 if they obtained their initial EPRC in 2022. However, the state’s reminders included the wrong date for the employee-level compensation data that they must submit. Some of IDOL’s recertification notice emails to employers erroneously stated...
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March 21, 2024
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Category: Compliance Reporting and Recordkeeping

EEOC Releases Data Dashboard of “Component 2” Pay Data to Public

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has made available to the public a new Data Dashboard based on data that the agency collected from employers for calendar years 2017 and 2018. The dashboard allows users to review and sort aggregate EEO-1 Component 2 pay band data. EEOC Chair Charlotte Burrows said the release of the Component 2 aggregated data can illuminate...
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February 01, 2024
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Category: Compensation

Biden Administration Proposes Pay Range Disclosure Rule for Federal Contractors

The Federal Acquisition Regulatory (FAR) Council has proposed a new pay transparency rule that would require federal contractors to disclose pay ranges for all open jobs on or in connection with covered federal contracts. Two years after President Biden issued an Executive Order calling for pay transparency in federal contracting, the Biden Administration published its proposal in the Federal Register on January...
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